so trimmed all the squares to 9.5” - some were too wonky to fit the original 10” goal.
Planning to cut the sashing tomorrow and start putting it all together.
Not much left over! Looking forward to seeing how the little garden critters look on the cornerstones.
After spending May in California, Cyrus has decided to go back to CO and attend college there. I was really looking forward to having a crafting/baking buddy this fall.
We’re making the most of our remaining time. Both grand-teens have a list of places they’d like to visit. Today’s choices were Huntington Library (air quality is poor due to local wildfires, so that’s a no), The Getty (long drive, crazy traffic) and our winner - the Santa Barbara Zoo.
Cyrus really wanted to see the condors but they were off display for habitat clean-up. Her new favorite of the day?
Big, blue, chonky Victoria Crowned Pigeons. Aren’t they interesting??
Pop is planning to take them to the LA Natural History Museum on Saturday. Cyrus wants to have dinner on the beach and watch the sun set, so maybe Sunday or Monday night? Tuesday’s plan is revisiting her favorite thrift stores. It’ll be interesting to see what else we can cram in.
North Spokane location
so we looked up a restaurant Rachel had recommended.
Frank’s Diner has been a Spokane institution since 1991, serving great food in historic railway cars. (Link has interesting history of the cars)
What we didn’t realize was that there were two diners - one a couple of blocks from our hotel in Downtown and the other 30 minutes away in North Spokane.
Guess which one we went to…. Oops!
Food was great (crispy deviled eggs are yummmmm), the rail car was fun and we had enough time so I’m glad we went. Next time we’ll try the one in downtown…
Rhododendron
Spokane International (GEG) is fairly small. It took us less than 30 minutes to return our rental car (and talk to the return guy for 5 minutes), walk to the opposite end of the airport to check-in, then back across for security and up and around for our gate.
Granted it was mid-afternoon on a Tuesday, but there was no one in line at the Delta counter, one person ahead of us at security and only 3 other people waiting at our gate. I love small airports!
Looks rough but we had only mild turbulence
While we were away, Cyrus sent me (many!) photos of Coco Chai - Coco with Cyrus, Coco making friends with Leia, Coco being adorable.
Coco Chai Princess Pie
The cat is shy but has gradually warmed up to us… all except for Pop. Maybe it’s his height? (It was his height with Leo’s new dog. Kenai shied away until Pop sat down, then they were best buds.) But tonight Pop was sitting on the couch and look who initiated contact….
Friends at last!
She had fun getting her pants that dirty
and headed to Spokane.
Riverfront Park
We were scheduled to spend another night at the tiny house
Hotel views. We could see half the city
but driving to Spokane to sightsee,
Clock Tower on Spokane River
then back for the night,
then to Spokane airport the next morning seemed a bit much (it’s 90 minutes each way…)
Big(!) busy bumblebee
So instead, we booked a hotel room close-ish to the airport
Lilacs; the wagon handle was a full-sized kids slide; one of many water features
and across the street from two things we really wanted to see this trip -
Riverfront Park
Sampling of art from the park.
and Spokane Falls.
Upper Falls
We walked through the park, admiring the art and water features,
So many pedestrian bridges!
before getting to the Spokane River
Lower Falls
and Upper and Lower Spokane Falls.
Looking back at Lower Falls
We took a catrillion photos (only slight exaggeration)
Our first view of SkyRide capsules
from every angle we could find,
including the SkyRide capsules (so fun!)
An excellent dinner at PF Changs-
View from SkyRide
I’m still sad the one near us closed -
Rotary Fountain, Gesa Pavilion in the background
then back to our corner room(!) on the 9th floor
Hotel carpet was pretty
to watch night fall and the city lights sparkle.
Gesa Pavilion from our room. The colors kept changing as we watched
We fly home late tomorrow afternoon.
We were almost the only people on the ride.
Looking forward to seeing Cyrus, Leia and Coco, who have been housesitting while we’re gone.
Artsy Lower Falls
And also planning our next trip to Spokane.
The river after the falls
More of the bazillion photos…
River walk behind our tiny house
Also Jac: Don’t forget your raincoat just in case.
Looking back-our house is the 3rd one, behind the tree
Mother Nature, 5 minutes later: Hahahahahahahahaha
Watching the rain on the water as it headed our way
as she pelted us with gravel-sized hail.
Pink dot is Jac, outpacing me to the warm house
I stopped for less than a minute to take a video -
Jac kept right on going, beating me to the house by enough time to strip off her soaked coat, shoes and pants and plant herself in the middle of the bed, under at least 3 blankets.
There was a lot more before Mother Nature was done
Such a smart girl.
